AD Achieves Cyber Essentials Certification

AD is pleased to announce our certification to the Cyber Essentials Scheme.

Obtaining Cyber Essentials demonstrates AD’s commitment to the security of our systems and integrity of our data in line with GDPR and Privacy laws.

What is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is an effective, Government backed scheme that helps to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks.

Cyber attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are very basic in nature, carried out by relatively unskilled individuals. They’re the digital equivalent of a thief trying your front door to see if it’s unlocked. Our advice is designed to prevent these attacks.

Cyber Essentials - Provides protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. This is important because vulnerability to basic attacks can mark you out as target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber criminals and others. Certification gives you peace of mind that your defences will protect against the vast majority of common cyber attacks simply because these attacks are looking for targets which do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls in place. Cyber Essentials shows you how to address those basics and prevent the most common attacks.

Cyber Essentials & Government Contracts - In order to bid for central government contracts which involve handling sensitive and personal information or the provision of certain technical products and services, Cyber Essentials Certification is required.

For further information visit the NCSC website:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview